About GeekLad

Geeklad is a technology enthusiast and programming hobbyist. Occasionally he will put together useful little bits of code (be it JavaScript or PHP) and share them with the world. He also enjoys creating and sharing howtos, describing how to do the things people want to do with their computers.

This post will show you how to block websites, without the installation of website blockers or other programs to block websites. Fortunately, all desktop operating systems (Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux) have a built-in mechanisms that make it very easy to do.

You may on occasion find yourself wanting to clear cache files, remove cookies, remove history, and perform other tasks to manage your private browser files. In Google Chrome, you can delete your browsing history at a very granular level or large portions of it all at once.

When manipulating strings in JavaScript, it is often necessary to perform certain functions to escape characters, decode them, and perform other string manipulations. JavaScript makes it easy to modify the String prototype, making it possible to create new methods on String types. As of late, I’ve preferred this method (pun intended) over creating custom functions.

A little over a week ago, I completed the first version of a script (in the form of a JavaScript bookmarklet) that allows you to download your Google Web History. Shortly afterwards, I posted some comments on a few other pages with similar scripts. Someone saw one of my comments and posted a comment on my article (posted as metal123, this person normally goes by the handle “Naka”).

Microsoft Access is nice for quick and dirty manipulation of data and merging data sets. It also has a lot of nice functions you won’t find in other versions of SQL. One of these functions is the First() function. Although not available in Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, it can be emulated by other means.